Elize Matsunaga, convicted in 2012 of killing and dismembering her husband, Marcos Matusnaga, is working as a ride-hailing app driver in Franca, in the interior of São Paulo. The information was disclosed by the writer of Elize’s biography, Ullisses Campbell.
She served 10 years in prison and is on parole to serve the remaining 16 years of her sentence. Being on probation, Elize is responsible for supporting herself financially.
On the hitchhiking app platform, she adopts her maiden name, Elize Araújo.
A CNN came into contact with Uber, who denied that Elize is registered in his system. Platforms have not yet returned 99 Taxi It is Max Taxi.
wanted by CNN, Elize’s defense has yet to come forward.
remember the case
In 2012, Elize Matsunaga murdered her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, then executive director of the Yoki food industry, in the couple’s apartment, in the west zone of São Paulo. According to the authorities, she would have discovered that he had a mistress, and, during an argument, shot the businessman. She then quartered the body and left it at various points in the city.
In a statement a few days after the crime, Matsunaga confessed to what happened and was taken to the Tremembé Women’s Penitentiary.
She was charged with triple qualified intentional homicide, destruction and concealment of a corpse. On November 28, 2016, the trial of the case began at the Minister Mário Guimarães Criminal Forum, in São Paulo.
Among the witnesses heard by the authorities were the victim’s brother, the police chief who presided over the investigation and an employee of the company run by Marcos, among others.
In the early hours of December 5, 2016, Elize Matsunaga was sentenced to 19 years, 11 months and one day in prison for the crime, including 18 years and 9 months in prison for homicide without a chance of defense, and one year, two months and one day for hiding the corpse.
The jury accepted the prosecution’s qualifying requests that the crime did not offer the victim a chance of defense, but refused to infer that it was a base and somewhat cruel motive.
In 2019, she had her sentence reduced to 16 years and three months by the 5th Class of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) for confessing to the crime.
Elize left the Tremembé Women’s Penitentiary after ten years in prison in 2022, after a court decision granted her parole.
According to Matsunaga’s lawyer, the forecast is that the prison sentence will be served by January 2028, with the possibility of a 50-day reduction for work and study while in prison.
*Posted by Fernanda Pinotti
Source: CNN Brasil
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